Don Webb, Author . Temporary Culture $22.50 (222p) ISBN 978-0-9764660-1-7
The opening "Souvenirs from a Damnation," a list of 21 objects and their mysterious history, is exemplary of the magical realist stories and Lovecraft homages in this collection: a narrator sees friends and/or colleagues consumed by dreadful
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Don Webb, Author Northwestern University Press $9.95 (147p) ISBN 978-1-57366-012-9
The jacket copy describes this book as ""a Postmodern magical papyrus."" Maybe. It's not really a collection of short fiction, not poetry, not even a series of writing experiments; so, if papyrus is a continuous scroll composed of slim strips, the...
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Don Webb, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-26582-3
As readers of his two previous mysteries (1998's The Double, 1999's Essential Saltes) know, Webb likes to whip up murder, humor and sex into a heady froth. His latest starts out with a similar blend of ingredients and for more than half its length...
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Don Webb, Author St. Martin's Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-19144-3
Too much sex, some dopey philosophy spun from grade-B SF novels and New Age tracts and a sprinkling of genuinely funny lines mark this hybrid mystery/fantasy debut. Computer game designer John Reynman finds a dead man in his Austin, Tex., house. The
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Don Webb. Hippocampus (www.hippocampuspress.com), $20 trade paper (252p) ISBN 978-1-61498-084-1
Webb's collection of 24 stories and poems (nine original to the volume) evokes Lovecraft's cosmic horrors in refreshingly original and unconventional ways. "Lovecraft's Pillow" tells of a contemporary horror writer who is overwhelmed by Lovecraft's...
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